Maintenance Services - Button Maker Tune-Up Service

A 5 point maintenance for your button maker. This is not a button maker repair but a basic maintenance. A good solid metal button maker will last 25 years + and can make hundreds of thousands of buttons but from time to time a simple button maker tune up could be helpful.

If you want to do it yourself checkout the videos from The Button Guy! The Button Guy explainshow to repair, maintain and unjam button makers in his series of Button Making Tutorials.

Button Maker Tune Up:

Check, lubricate and tighten top bolts & shim - silicon spray

Check Lubricate and tighten handle - silicon spray

Lubricate beveled edge on crimp die - silicon stick

Lubricate top die - silicon stick

Lubricate between die table and base plate - lithium grease

Check and tighten brass bolts and flat head bolts on underside of base plate

Be careful. Do not take your button maker apart if you do this yourself. Do not overtighten bolts as they will break. Be gentle with your button maker. Whilst you could almost bang a nail in the wall with it, it will serve you better if you treat it like a precision instrument!